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    The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity, A Guide to Living in a Beautiful State
    The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity, A Guide to Living in a Beautiful State
    The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity, A Guide to Living in a Beautiful State
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    The Four Sacred Secrets: For Love and Prosperity, A Guide to Living in a Beautiful State

    By Preethaji and Krishnaji

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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    In the bestselling tradition of The Four Agreements, learn how to access the hidden power of consciousness, shed anxiety, and cultivate a life of wealth and happiness with this eye-opening and accessible guide outlining the four keys to success—from the founders of the revolutionary O&O Academy.

    From stress to calm.
    From isolation to love.
    From chaos to peace.
    From lack to abundance.

    The Four Sacred Secrets combines proven scientific approaches with ancient spiritual practices to take you on a journey that will open your mind to an extraordinary destiny.

    Drawing on the power of our untapped consciousness, brilliant insights will help you find solutions to long-held challenges. The easy-to-follow meditations included in this book will transform your experience of reality and open you to the power of creating a beautiful life for yourself.

    Including ancient fables and modern stories that will speak intimately to your heart, this life-transforming book fuses the transcendental and the scientific, the mystical and the practical, to guide you to consciously create wealth, heal your heart, awaken yourself to love, and help you to make peace with your true self.

    The Four Sacred Secrets will cast its spell on you from the first page and guide you to life in a beautiful state.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781501173790
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    Preethaji

    Preethaji is a philosopher, mystic, and cofounder of the O&O Academy. She offers courses in major cities around the world that lead people to the scientific and transcendental dimensions of consciousness. Her TEDx Talk, “How To End Stress, Unhappiness, and Anxiety to Live in a Beautiful State,” has reached more than two million people.

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    The Four Sacred Secrets - Preethaji

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    The First Sacred Secret: Live with a Spiritual Vision

    The First Sacred Secret: Live with a Spiritual Vision

    By Krishnaji

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    Before you begin your journey, take a few moments.

    Please pause here.

    Take three deep breaths.

    Slowly say within yourself,

    May I find the answers I seek.

    May I discover the solutions I need.

    May my life be beautiful.

    Please continue.

    Many civilizations, many religions, many cultures have come and gone. But the pursuit of a transformed state of consciousness has remained intact in humanity throughout history. This passion to experience life from a magnificent state cuts across all religions, all races, and all cultures. This spiritual passion to live fully, to connect deeply, to love totally, is at the core of every single human being on this planet whether they are conscious of it or not.

    There are numerous experiences of this transformed state of consciousness: as pure bliss, causeless love, calm courage, or a still presence.

    Conventionally, a quest for a transformed state is often associated with hippies or with people who are retired from life. It is assumed to be the zone that only those who are disinterested and disillusioned with life choose to enter. Throughout the ages, a transformed state of consciousness has been pursued as an end in itself, but Preethaji and I make a clear distinction in this regard. We believe nothing can be further from the truth than this assumption.

    Our own lives are proof of it. Preethaji and I are very engaged with life: we are husband and wife, we are parents to our teenage daughter, and we also very proactively care for the health and well-being of our parents. We run an internationally acclaimed academy for consciousness studies, which over the past year alone has reached more than 69,500 students in many countries around the world. At the academy we are very hands-on, from training the faculty members, to designing the courses, to teaching the higher classes. In addition, we also have founded two enormous charities that have thus far impacted the lives of more than 500,000 villagers in more than one thousand villages around our academy. We have beneficially affected the lives of the more than 220,000 young people in various schools and colleges in India who have gone through our courses. We also have founded five global businesses for which we have been acting as visionaries and guides in recent years.

    It is not an exaggeration to tell you that we are deeply fulfilled and successful in all we do. Most people who observe us from the outside wonder how we make so much happen.

    We say it is the power of our consciousness.

    Every one of us is much more than our limited minds. We are much more than our bodies. We are transcendental beings. The more you awaken to the power of your consciousness, the more powerful you will become. The more easily the universe comes to your aid, the more miraculous life itself will be. This is the key to the secrets we are about to share with you. If you want to find solutions to your problems, if you want your desires to be fulfilled, you must awaken to the power of your own consciousness.

    What we are about to share with you will make your consciousness powerful enough to achieve your heartfelt intentions. These four sacred secrets are drawn from our lives and have worked in the lives of every person we have taught them to.

    So open your hearts. Even as you read each of these sacred secrets and absorb them, you will see the flow of your life shifting toward the miraculous.

    Discover the first sacred secret.

    The First Sacred Secret: Live with a Spiritual Vision Which state of being is carrying you?

    By Preethaji

    This ancient fable will lead you into comprehending the first sacred secret. Read it slowly.

    Two monks, Yesmi and Nomi, were returning to their monastery after a day of teaching in the nearby village. On their way back, they had to cross a river. Just as they were about to enter the river, they heard a woman crying.

    Yesmi approached the woman and inquired what was troubling her.

    I need to get back to my toddler, who is waiting for me in the village across the river. Since the waters have risen today, I am unable to get back, she said. She was miserable that her child would cry for her all night.

    Yesmi volunteered to get her across the river. After he carried her to the other side, she thanked him, and the two monks continued on their way to the monastery.

    After a long, uncomfortable silence, Nomi finally spoke. In an agitated tone he said, Do you realize the seriousness of what you just did?

    Yesmi smiled. I know.

    Nomi continued, Our master said, ‘Never look at a woman,’ and you spoke to her! Master said, ‘Never speak to a woman,’ and you touched her! Master said, ‘Never touch a woman,’ and you carried her!

    Yesmi calmly replied, This is true, but I set her down half an hour ago. Is it not you who is still carrying her?

    The two monks in the story represent the two inner states that all living beings experience. At every moment in our lives, we are either living in a suffering state or a no-suffering state.

    Let us call this no-suffering state a beautiful state, because that is how life feels when we are not suffering.

    If you’re uncomfortable with the word suffering, replace it with the word stress. Generally, stress refers to tension, but anger, fear, loneliness, frustration are all stressful states, aren’t they? The word suffering embraces all these states.

    Beautiful states include experiences of calm, connection, passion, joy, vitality, and inner peace. When we are not in a beautiful state, our default state is stress or suffering.

    If we look at every single happening in our own lives or the world around us, we see the driving force of these two states of being. Behind war or peace, addictions or social harmony, persistence or failure, kindness or cruelty, cooperation or corrosive politics, and, finally, happy children or a generation that is troubled, there is either a suffering state or a beautiful state.

    Let us now return to our story, keeping in mind that Yesmi represents a beautiful state and Nomi a stressful or suffering state.

    Nomi created a nonexistent problem in his mind and got stressed trying to solve it. Yesmi solved a fellow human being’s actual problem and continued on his peaceful walk.

    Nomi was agitated before the event, during the event, and after the event. His inner agitation led him to overcomplicate matters and act irrationally.

    Yesmi, while in action, was fully present. Once the action was over, his departure from the situation, too, was total. In a beautiful state, there is no compulsive rumination over the past or anxiety about the future. We experience inner simplicity and the brilliance of an uncluttered mind. We are connected to the present.

    Nomi was lost because a stressful state separates. When we are Nomi, we stand in a joyful crowd and still feel absent. We feel lonely even when we are with close friends.

    Yesmi’s state was different; he was present. He also felt Nomi’s distress and tried to help him out of it with a wise question.

    When we are in a beautiful state, we are wise enough to help ourselves and to help others. Our actions are decisive and powerful.

    There have been times when we have all been Yesmi, and there are times when we have been Nomi. We have all lived in stress and disconnection and have contributed to the chaos in our personal lives and the lives of the people around us. We have also lived in beautiful states of connection and have contributed to the well-being of the world and ourselves.

    In our years of observation of consciousness and its manifestation in life, we have noticed a recurring pattern. Undoubtedly, suffering is destructive and beautiful states are rejuvenating and life-giving. Time and again, we have noticed that the more a person lives in a suffering state, the more life becomes like a tangled net from which there seems to be no escape. Problems mount, confusion mounts, chaos mounts. Life becomes an endless battle.

    When we prolong suffering states of frustration, disappointment, jealousy, or hate, every aspect of our lives feels off-kilter. We battle with our families, battle at work, battle with the government. In suffering states, we feel as if all the forces in the universe are hostile to us. No matter what decision we make or what action we take, we find life heading toward greater and greater chaos.

    We have also seen, on innumerable occasions, that when we live in a beautiful state, magical synchronicities begin to unfold. Here, you might be wondering, what is a synchronicity? Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences. They are favorable and harmonious occurrences that happen in alignment with your intention. It feels as if the randomly moving universe is arranging itself in patterns in response to your heart’s longing to support you.

    In a beautiful state we become more creative, and incredible solutions to challenges arise. Our damaged relationships heal and nourishing new relationships emerge. Our thinking becomes clearer, our intellects become sharper, our minds become more peaceful, and our hearts move into a space of connection.

    If you are feeling overwhelmed by the concept of a beautiful state or are unsure if you have understood it correctly, remember that a beautiful state refers to a rich range of experiences. It can begin as serenity, happiness, gratitude, love, or courage. The essence of a beautiful state is the absence of conflicting inner chatter, a greater presence to life, and a richer connection to the people around you. As you evolve further, you can awaken to transcendental states such as peace, stillness, compassion, joy, and fearlessness. In these states you are in a flow with life. You awaken to the oneness and interconnection of all existence. The more powerful the state, the more easily you impact the fabric of consciousness to manifest your aspirations.

    Unpacking the Word

    By Krishnaji

    To live totally we must end the fear of death.

    To love completely we must dissolve disappointment.

    To experience a beautiful state we must have a penetrating insight into suffering and thus become free of it.

    By now you have likely come to understand the way we use the word suffering. Simply put, it means an uncomfortable emotional experience. And it has a wide range: the mildest experiences of suffering that often go unnoticed are irritation, apprehension, and disappointment. As you continue to indulge in them, they move to the second stage of anger, anxiety, and sadness. If you have not been taught how to help them dissolve, they can become rage or vengefulness, panic or depression—in other words, very dangerously obsessive.

    No matter what level of suffering you are engaged in, it is absolutely essential to realize that prolonging suffering is damaging. Suffering states are the prime destroyers of every one of your dreams.

    There is another very familiar but critical word we would love to explore with you so that you may truly understand the meaning of the word suffering:

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